Adamson

Yolo County Consolidated Water Co. v. Adamson

Good Law
1913 Cal. App. LEXIS 110·22 Cal. App. 493·135 P. 48
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJuly 29, 1913Civ. No. 1114.California2,276 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Chipman, J.

This appeal is from the order of the trial court, granting the motion of defendants to change the place of trial from Yolo County to Lake County. The grounds of the motion are that all of the defendants at the commencement of the action were and now are residents of the county of Lake and the “action is for the determination of a right or interest in and to real property situated in the county of Lake, state of California, and for an injury to real property, and to prevent an alleged trespass upon real property situated in the said county of Lake.”

It appears from the complaint in the action that the plaintiff is a corporation whose principal place of business is Woodland, Yolo County, and was organized for the purpose of acquiring, selling, and delivering water and water-rights for irrigation and other purposes and to construct canals, ditches, dams, flumes, and other means of diverting water for said purposes; that Cache Creek takes its rise in Clear Lake “and flows in a southeasterly direction through the county of Yolo from which a large acreage of said county is irrigated and supplied with water by plaintiff”; that “plaintiff is the owner of certain lands, canals and…

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